 | Great Britain. Parliament - Great Britain - 1844 - 1020 pages
...I did in 1825. You rejected it. We returned to Ireland. There was nothing left us but to say — " Hereditary bondsmen, know you not Who would be free, themselves must strike the blow ?" That was our motto: we assembled: the people were roused, indignant at this treatment :... | |
 | 678 pages
...and the wrongs of Ireland, and the usual strain of a popular orator in addressing Irishmen is — " Hereditary bondsmen, know you not Who would be free themselves must strike the blow I " Well, but how have the " hereditary bondsmen " struck the blow this time? Why, with the... | |
 | Daniel O'Connell, Mary Francis Cusack - Ireland - 1875 - 632 pages
...I did in 1825. You rejected it. We returned to Ireland. There was nothing left us but to say — " Hereditary bondsmen, know you not, Who would be free, themselves must strike the blow ?" That was our motto : we assembled : the people were roused, indignant at this treatment... | |
 | Milford Wriarson Howard - Wealth - 1895 - 292 pages
...obey the law." — Goldsmith. "Gaesar would not be a wolf, if Romans were not sheep." — Shakespeare. "Hereditary bondsmen know you not. Who " would be free themselves must strike the blow."— Walter Scott. .' . .. "While the patient will . suffer the cruel will kick."— Wendell... | |
 | Joseph Hodges Choate - 1908 - 140 pages
...consequences. At the dinner of the Friendly Sons of St. Patrick, in the evening of March 17, 1893, be said: "But, gentlemen, now that you have done so much for...downtrodden, oppressed Ireland! 'Hereditary bondsmen! Know ye not, who would be free themselves must strike the blow?' "You have learned how to govern by making... | |
 | Theron George Strong - Law - 1917 - 452 pages
...offices, great or small, have the Irishmen not taken? What spoils have they not carried away? But, now that you have done so much for America, now that...must strike the blow?" At this there was laughter and cries of "We can't," and "There isn't any way to do it." Mr. Choate went on: "You have learned how... | |
 | Theron George Strong - Law - 1917 - 454 pages
...offices, great or small, have the Irishmen not taken? What spoils have they not carried away? But, now that you have done so much for America, now that...down-trodden, oppressed Ireland! Hereditary bondsmen 1 Know you not who would be free, themselves must strike the blow?" At this there was laughter and... | |
 | Theron George Strong - Ambassadors - 1918 - 452 pages
...offices, great or small, have the Irishmen not taken? What spoils have they not carried away? But, now that you have done so much for America, now that...must strike the blow?" At this there was laughter and cries of "We can't," and "There isn't any way to do it." Mr. Choate went on: "You have learned how... | |
 | Richard Monckton Milnes (Baron Houghton) - 1922 - 200 pages
...einen eigens für ihn geschriebenen Autographen O'Connells, ein Zitat aus „Childe Harold" II, 76 : «Hereditary Bondsmen, know you not Who would be free themselves must strike the blow». Für Dienstag, den 17. Dezember, abends, wurde dann ein gemeinsamer Besuch bei Fräulein... | |
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But, now that you have done so much for America, now that you have made it all your own, what do you propose to do for Ireland? How long do you propose to let her be the political football of England? Poor down-trodden, oppressed Ireland! Hereditary bondsmen!... 